Flint Voters Elect New Mayor, Seven New City Councilors, One New School Board Member
Note: All election results are unofficial until they are certified. Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Election results in Flint and Genesee County are still unofficial and total vote margins are being tabulated, but clear winners have already emerged in key...
Candy, Costumes, and Crowds: Halloween Takes Over College Cultural Neighborhood
By Jan Worth Flint’s legendary “trick or treat central” in the College Cultural Neighborhood is about to get its yearly influx of kids and families. Hordes of miniature witches, Supermen, robots, and ghosts, along with their cooperating grownups, swarm the...
Meet the Candidates: Flint Mayoral Election
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. City of Flint voters will choose the city’s next mayor from among four candidates — two on the ballot and two certified write-in candidates — on November 3. Incumbent Mayor Sheldon Neeley is looking to become the city’s...
Meet the Candidate: Ninth Ward Flint City Council
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Voters in Flint’s Ninth Ward will have a new city council representative next year, as incumbent Jonathan Jarrett was disqualified from the ballot for failing to reach the signature collection requirement in April, leaving...
Meet the Candidates: Eighth Ward Flint City Council
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Voters in Flint’s Eighth Ward will have a new city council representative next year, as current Councilman Dennis Pfeiffer announced in January that he would not seek re-election. Pfeiffer, voted into office in 2021, will...
Meet the Candidates: Seventh Ward Flint City Council
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Current Flint City Council President Candice Mushatt is seeking re-election in the Seventh Ward in the November 3 election, challenged by Darell Brown, who is running for office for the first time. Mushatt was first...
Meet the Candidates: Sixth Ward Flint City Council
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Flint’s Sixth Ward will have a new City Council Representative after the November 3 election, as incumbent Tonya Burns chose to run for Mayor rather than seek re-election to her council seat. In her absence, there was some...
Meet the Candidates: Fifth Ward Flint City Council
Published in partnership with East Village Magazine Two candidates, Joel Arnold and DeWaun Robinson, are facing off in the November 3 election to replace Flint’s longest-tenured current City Councilperson, Jerri Winfrey-Carter. Winfrey-Carter, who was first elected in...
Meet the Candidates: Fourth Ward Flint City Council
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Flint’s Fourth Ward will be the busiest on Election Day on November 3, despite only having one name officially on the ballot. Ramie Yelle is the only candidate whose name appears on the ballot for Fourth Ward voters....
Meet the Candidates: Third Ward Flint City Council
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. The incumbent Third Ward Flint City Councilperson is running for re-election — just not in the Third Ward. Redrawn ward boundaries in Flint have shifted two incumbents around. Current Third Ward Councilperson LaShawn Johnson...
Meet the Candidates: Second Ward Flint City Council
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. The only ward in the city of Flint guaranteed to have an incumbent win the November 3 election is the city’s Second Ward. Due to changes in ward boundaries, current Third Ward Councilwoman LaShawn Johnson is running against...
Meet the Candidates: Flint City Council First Ward
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Two candidates emerged from the August 2026 primary election in the race to be the new Flint City Council Representative in the First Ward: Arthur Woodson and Debra Coleman. Woodson was the top vote-getter in the primary,...
Meet the Candidates: Genesee County Probate Judge
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Genesee County voters will elect a new Probate Judge on November 3, choosing between experienced attorneys Andrea LeGendre and Ashley Prew to fill a seat held by retiring Probate Judge Jennie E. Barkey since 2006. Probate...
The East Village Magazine – October 2026
The October edition of The East Village Magazine is on it's way to newsstands and mailboxes now, but you can see the digital copy below: [pdfjs-viewer attachment_id=52155 url=https://www.eastvillagemagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/EVM-October-2026.pdf...
Meet the Candidates: Flint Community Schools Board of Education
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Eight candidates are on the Nov. 3 ballot for three seats on the Flint Community Schools Board of Education. Incumbents Joyce Ellis-McNeal, PhD, Terae King Jr., and Laura Gillespie MacIntyre are all seeking re-election to...
Meet the Candidates: Beecher School Board
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Voters in the Beecher School District will elect three people to the district’s Board of Education on November 3, across two races. Marvin W. Smoot, currently the Beecher board president, is running unopposed for a partial...
Meet the Candidates: Mott Community College Board of Trustees
Published in partnership with Flint. Daily. Voters on November 3 will choose from eight candidates to fill two seats on the Mott Community College Board of Trustees. Mott’s elected board consists of seven trustees who are responsible for hiring and evaluating the...
Flint Firebirds Open Season With New Faces and High Hopes for 2026-27
By Nathan Waters Header image courtesy of the Flint Firebirds The air is cooling, the leaves are changing, the ice has been set and that can only mean one thing: Flint Firebirds hockey is back. Following a record setting season and an up and down playoff run, the...
Fenton High School tops area schools in U.S. News rankings
By Harold C. Ford Fenton Senior High School topped the list of high school rankings in Genesee County, according to a study published in August 2026 by U.S. News and World Report. The U.S. News rankings include data on more than 27,000 public high schools in 50...
The East Village Magazine – September 2026
The latest edition of The East Village Magazine has been delivered and is at newsstands now. If you haven't seen your copy, here's the online version for download and viewing: [pdfjs-viewer attachment_id=51828...
Halloween season begins early with Flint Short Film Freakout
By Nathan Waters The ghost and ghouls, creepies and crawlies have come out of hibernation early as the Flint Short Film Freakout is slithering its way back into downtown Flint.The second annual event begins at 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 5 at Flint Local 432. It runs...
Village Life: A bit of ‘Mario Kart’ in Mexico City
By Kate Stockrahm There are few experiences more humbling than visiting a place where you cannot speak the language well, if at all. We’re here in Mexico City (CDMX), which is larger than New York City in both land area and population to many a foreigner’s...
On ‘Exploring Mid-Michigan: A Guide to Flint, the Saginaw Valley, and the Thumb’
By Gordon Young There are some travel guides you want beside you on the car seat. Remember the old AAA TripTik? It still exists, though in a more practical but less satisfying digital form. The dashboard touchscreen display is just not the same as flipping the pages...
Commentary: You might be a socialist if…
By Paul Rozycki With the victory of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York, the activism of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Abdul El-Sayed’s recent Michigan primary win, the rise of the Democratic Socialist/progressive wing...
Data centers, AI, and the growth of tech industry demand in Flint and beyond
By Nathan Waters Data centers are one of the hottest and most contentious topics in the current discourse across Michigan and the United States at large. The requirements for digital storage and increased development of online services by big tech companies like Meta...
